On time and within budget the new Lumuamua Primary School opened it's doors to the children at the end of last year. This week, Gustavo and the team attended the official opening of the school. A fantastic day for everyone in Lumuamua village and all of us involved in Nema. In Gustavo's words...

"Matafome" translates as "kill the hunger" and this is what the children chanted the very first day we (Nema Foundation) started the school meals project in Guludo school. The name stuck and now the project is affectionately called Matafome and reaches almost 1,000 children in our area, every school day.

"A baby girl died today." Founder of JoJo Maman Bebe, Laura Tenison, is in Guludo at the moment and writes a heartbreaking, yet inspiring, blog about child mortality and how important Nema's work is. Laura and the JoJo team work tirelessly to help our sister charity, Nema, develop and expand our mission to relieve poverty in this part of the world.

The Guludo team really have outdone themselves! Last year Caitlin, Angus, Harry and Assane started working with local tailors to produce bags that could be sold to Guludo guests and both provide livelihoods for local tailors and provide an income for Nema Foundation.